Cutty Sark 2 would sail the globe as a training vessel-cum-living museum, while carrying symbolic cargoes of tea and wool like her namesake, according to Vladimir Martus, a sailor and naval architect who is spearheading the project.
Even fewer would actually cut up the can, dip it in a silver bath, and use it as an accessory in a fashion collection, along with a few other previously uncelebrated kitchen items, such as mesh tea balls and steel-wool pads.
Many countries have their own markets: Australia for wool, Sri Lanka and India for tea, and Malaysia for rubber and tin.
Traditionally, the area was filled with industrial buildings, where ale, coffee, tea, paper boxes, varnish, handkerchiefs, steel wool, and other goods were made or stored.
We will need to go to big companies for sponsorship; I'm hopeful any big company that imports tea to Britain from India, or wool from Australia would think it would be a great marketing opportunity".
For example, create a tea-stain by soaking tea bags in water, or soak steel wool in vinegar overnight to create a rust stain.
Evidently a cut above her husband, she's trying to recreate England in this wilderness, with her fancy tea service, an imported Christmas tree, and cotton wool to resemble snow.
The vessel served in the English-Chinese tea trade through the 1870s, later in the Australian wool trade, and finally as a training ship.
We had sat in their black yak-wool tents and sipped cups of buttermilk tea.
No wool suits, no leather shoes, no honey in your tea, no cheese on your pizza.
